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Locarno Film Festival Focuses on African Cinema

Updated 2026-08-05 06:10 UTC 1 source Neutral

The Locarno Film Festival is highlighting next-generation African talent with a series of films, including 'Chapa 100,' an absurdist political allegory, and 'Hibiscus by the River,' a cross-continental queer drama. The festival aims to showcase diverse narratives from across the continent.

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Variety

‘The Blacklist was a Plague’ — Locarno Retrospective Curator Ehsan Khoshbakht Talks About What We Can Learn from the Intolerance of the Past

One of the most shameful episodes in Hollywood’s history is being examined in a new retrospective to screen at the Locarno Film Festival: Red & Black: Hollywood Left and the Blacklist. Speaking to Variety, the retrospective’s curator, Ehsan Khoshbakht, speaks about the inspiration for the progra

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Variety

Locarno Open Doors 2026: Next Gen African Tales of Miraculous Snowfalls, Lost Dreams, an African Keyboard Prodigy and New Heroes

Magic realist love story “Chapa 100,” absurdist political allegory “A Vineyard for a Lobster” and cross-continental queer drama “Hibiscus by the River” look like some of the potential standouts at Locarno’s talent-deep, wide-ranging 2026 Africa-focused Open Doors, unspooling on-site at Locarno over

2026-08-05 06:00 UTC